P likes cooking and spends a fair amount of time in the kitchen, particularly at the weekends. T is not so keen and is happy to let P get on with it. He searches through recipe books to find new things to cook and watches lots of food programmes on TV for hints and tips.

This has always seemed an innocent pastime to me, it has kept P occupied and out of T’s way. But since he started reading that book ‘The Edible Woman’ I am not so sure. I have watched him closely but he hasn’t tried to take a bite out of T, which would be difficult as she is not very meaty. In fact he has been his usual self which is as distant as possible from T.

Would he really eat T? As I understand it humans don’t eat each other, it is not considered acceptable and indeed dogs don’t tend to eat each other either. Perhaps I have got it very wrong, I do hope so, T has many faults but I would miss her. It’s at times like this when you realise how useful humans are and life would be more difficult without them, yes really, even life with T.

But he has been watching Masterchef and was particularly interested in the bit about boning a chicken...